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Creating a Mixed Dentition Chart
Children within certain age ranges have various combinations of primary and permanent teeth in the mouth at the same time (mixed dentition). Some adults as well may have a retained primary tooth that never exfoliated. To create a chart for a patient with a mixed dentition follow these steps:

1. Display the Mixed dentition by clicking the Show Mixed button on the Tooth Settings tab.
2. Select the tooth or teeth you want to change. Click on the tooth to select a single tooth. To select multiple teeth hold the Shift key down and click the teeth to select. A yellow rectangle displays around selected teeth.
3. With the teeth selected, under the Tooth Settings tab, click either the Switch Selected Teeth To Permanent or Switch Selected Teeth To Primary. The selected teeth will change accordingly.
4. To mark one or more teeth as erupted or unerupted, select the teeth in question and click the Erupted button or the Unerupted button, which is also located under the Tooth Settings tab. The eruption status of the teeth will change accordingly.

You have now created a mixed dentition. The setting for the mixed dentition is automatically saved when you create it. You can now flip back and forth among the three dentitions by clicking the Show Permanent, Show Primary, and Show Mixed buttons located under the Tooth Settings tab.  Whichever dentition you exit with is the one that will appear when you re-enter the charting program.

Set Missing Teeth
There are two ways to set missing teeth. One way has already been discussed. That is to post it through the External Charting Entry screen, just as you would any other condition. However, since indicating missing teeth is so common, and since there may be many missing teeth, we have provided a special mechanism to set missing teeth. On the Misc tab is a Set Missing Teeth button. It is disabled until you select one or more teeth. Click a tooth to select it. To select multiple teeth, hold down the Shift key and click as many teeth as desired to select them all. A selected tooth will have a yellow rectangle around it. With the teeth selected, click the Set Missing Teeth button. The Set Missing Teeth Date screen will open. This screen opens with the date set to Pre-Existing by default. Uncheck the Pre-Existing checkbox if you wish to enter a specific date. To set all the selected teeth to missing (with the date displayed), click the OK button.